Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York State Democratic Party to launch his presidential ambitions." Later, 120 reformers, including Playwright Gore (The Best Man) Vidal, Niagara Falls Mayor E. Dent Lackey and Actor Paul Newman, established a noisy Democrats for Keating Committee. Bobby viewed the reformers with the professional's habitual scorn for the idealistic amateur. "These people hate everything and everybody, even each other," he snapped...
...Francis Bacon, are loners who have attracted few, if any, significant imitators. One reason for the dearth of painters has been the traditional conservatism of British critics and collectors. Even after 49 years as a pillar of the Royal Academy, the great Joseph Turner was so fearful of critical scorn that he never risked exhibiting his last, prophetically impressionist, paintings. "For years, the English art scene drove me mad with tedium," says Bryan Robertson, director of London's prestigious, avant-garde Whitechapel Gallery. "Nobody cared. It was a real problem just finding people who were worth a show...
...Have No Bananas. In the sprawling Villa Tremolo, where he keeps his women (among them such Bergman favorites as Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson), Maestro Felix is heard but seldom seen. The women are the issue, for the artist's playthings, like his public, adore him, scorn him, help him, hinder him, pay him all the tributes that mediocrity pays to genius-and when he is gone, they quickly find another genius to take his place...
...past twenty years there has been an explosion of knowledge with a corresponding trend towards specialized, highly technical research. As a result, students have felt the urge to plunge immediately into intensive study or--even worse for Gen Ed--have begun, along with many faculty members, to scorn the material taught in these required courses as superficial, in fact, misleading. And the pressure to advanced research has kept many professors from giving time to so basic a venture...
...realizing that Humphrey was ready to accept some training, Johnson sought out the Minnesotan. "Hubert," he said, "I want you to meet the people around here who count." Humphrey took to talking with Georgia's wise old Senator Walter George, who had been among the first to scorn Hubert as an upstart. Senate veterans still remember how Humphrey worked to win George's respect, constantly asking questions and seeking advice from the old man. Before too long, George was telling his colleagues that young Humphrey wasn't a bad fellow...